The three Ls

On 9 September Alabama is due to execute a 50-year-old man. Holly Wood is guilty of murder, yet the courts do not dispute that he has an IQ of less than 70, the same mental age as a seven-year-old. I have been writing to Holly for five years, and can confirm his lack of understanding of the world around him. No possible justice can be served by the execution of a man so mentally disabled. Please sign the following petition: www.change.org/petitions/view/save_a_mentally_disabled_man_from_his_september_execution

Harriet Connides

London

• Aunties of Alice Costelloe wish to point out that she is still at school and therefore her songs reflect her daily experience (First sight: Big Deal, Film & Music, 3 September). Casting my own mind back to those days I seem to remember that lust, lunch and homework just about summed it up for me. What else do you think she should be writing about? Just saying …

Rose Boyt

London

• The world may still love Crocs' "ugly plastic shoes" (Report, 4 September) but males in a young offenders' institution participating in research described with disgust the worst punishment as having their trainers taken off them and being replaced with Crocs.